He has conducted programs with symphony orchestras, and his compositions for solo percussion, percussion ensemble and percussion with orchestra/band are widely performed. His fourth book, "Creative Music Making," on freeform improvisation was published by Routledge Books in 2005.
Bill has been a faculty artist in residence at the Showa College of the Arts in Atsugi, Japan, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the Eastman School of Music.

Bill has received the Rochester Philharmonic League's FANFARE AWARD (1988) for a "significant contribution to music education in Rochester," Mu Phi Epsilon's MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR AWARD (1993), and with NEXUS, the TORONTO ARTS AWARD in music (1989), the BANFF CENTRE FOR THE ARTS NATIONAL AWARD (1997), and induction into the Percussive Arts Society's HALL OF FAME (1999).

In 2006 Bill received a Grammy Award as part of the Paul Winter Consort on the DVD titled, "2004 Solstice Concert".